Hot Canadian beauty Nora Fatehi though sizzled in many special songs in Tollywod like NTR's Temper, Kick 2, Sher and Loafer, she attained immense stardom with Manohari song in Prabhas-Rajamouli's Baahubali.
Currently she is starring in Street Dancer and doing special songs in Batla House and Marjaavaan. Speaking to scribes, NoraFatehi shared her shocking experience revealing how she was bullied.
She said, "Life for foreigners in India is very difficult. We go through a lot and people don't even know. They take our money. It's happened to me. I remember my first agency that got me here from Canada. They were really aggressive in terms of behavior and I didn't feel like I was guided the right way. So, I wanted to leave them and in order to do that, they told me 'we are not going to give you your money.' And I lost Rs 20 lakhs at that time, which I had made from my ad campaigns. But I thought sacrificing it would be for a bigger picture.
I had to share an apartment with 8 girls. I walked in to this apartment, I was shocked and I was freaking out. My roommates stole my passport, I had to leave India and go back to Canada for a while."
She added, "I started learning Hindi but the auditions were very traumatic for me. I wasn't really mentally prepared and I made a fool of myself. People were really unforgiving. They wouldn't just be mean; they would laugh in front of my face as if I'm some circus. They would bully me. It was humiliating. I used to cry while travelling back to my home. There was this one casting agent who once told me, 'We don't need you here. Go back'. I'll never forget that."
Speaking about her background, Nora said, "I come from a very conservative Arab family. I used practice at home in my room and used to watch videos of people I really admired. And the way I did it well, is because of my love for performing."